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A north Texas woman said she was ordered to strip and then jailed over an overdue traffic ticket.
Sarah Boaz said she was cited in August for running a stop sign, but she later lost the ticket and failed to pay her fine.
She said she knew that was wrong, but she was still surprised Wednesday morning to find a Richland Hills city marshal waiting outside her home with an arrest warrant.
Im like, nobody puts out a bench warrant after 60 days, Boaz said. Why would you do that? You wouldnt do that.
She was taken to jail in handcuffs and a female officer ordered her to undress and stand against a wall.
Jail officials said undressing was standard procedure for anyone booked into the facility, but the police department said the search was not technically considered a strip search.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/25/texas-woman-stripped-and-jailed-over-unpaid-traffic-ticket/
Trillo
(9,154 posts)If we want a society where people are clothed, and give out punishments for public nudity, then its not surprising that the forced undressing or strip search itself would be considered fearful and punishing in and of itself. It appears to be another example where our society forces particular morals upon us (because we are born naked), then uses the targeted breaking of those morals as a hierarchical power play.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)(I am in North Richland Hills). It is the one place where I rigidly drive the speed limit.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)They killed, what, a million Iraqis and all them thousands of American GIs. That's way worse than a parking ticket.
indepat
(20,899 posts)of international law, inhumane, destructive, fiscally irresponsible and ruinous, calamitous, ludicrously cost ineffective, grossly unfair/inequitable, hair-brained, un-American, unconstitutional, in violation of the rule of law, et al. If anyone has any doubt, just get the drift of the cacophonous exultation exuding from the MSM talking-heads.
malaise
(269,022 posts)They're well connected - this lady not so much.